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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

HENRY A. STUMPF, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

,WASHI NG- SPECIFICATION To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY A. STUMPF, a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, have made certain new and-useful Improvements in Steam- Washers, a description of which is set forth in the following specification, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in the several figures of which like letters indicate like parts.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of steam-washerswherein a tank full depth of the wheel, and the cover ,re--

moved.

In detail, t is the tank, having handles h and cover o loosely fitting on the top thereof, which has handles h".

d is the drum, having stub-axles a connected to the sides thereof, which are provided with bearings b in the sides of the tank t, the drum being revolved by means of power applied to the crank c r. The drum is constructed with ,ribs 4" at suitable distances in the interior thereof, and troughs tr, having bottom'openings,0,and lateral openings 1 and 2,.this trough being connected to the drum only at the ends,

so that the openings 1 and 2 between the ends will be left free forthe admissionor rejection of the suds. The drum has a cover at the top, hinged at h, for opening it to put in the goods designed to be washed.

The devices operates as follows: The tank t, being partly filled with hot suds, is set upon the stove, the cover of the drum d is thrown back, the goods to be washed placed within the drum, the cover shut down and fastened with an ordinary hasp or any suitable catch, and the druin'is then revolved in the suds.

MACHINE.

forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,244, dated February 8, 1887. I

Application filed July 2, 1885. Serial No. 170,546. (No model.)

The steam and suds enter in through the open 'ings 0, penetrate the clothes in the drum and saturate them thoroughly, and as the drum is revolved the "water inside issues from the opening 1 or 2, according to which. way the drum is revolved, it being adapted to revolve in either direction, and the suds will issue from one of these lateral apertures opposite, so that while one receives the other discharges, and a complete circulation is kept up. After the drum with clothes therein has been revolved in one direction for a few minutes, it is well to reverse the movement of the drum and turn it the otherway, in order to prevent the clothes from being massed or tangled together.

,I am aware that washing -drums having bearings upon the sides of tanks for holding suds are not new, and do not broadly claim the same as my invention; but those heretofore constructed differ from mine in the manner of forming the interior troughs. It will be observed that the sides of my troughs flare in from the periphery of the drum toward the concave bottom of the trough, forming pockets in the corners at their junction for the better carrying of the water, and inlets are provided between the flaring sides and the inner surface of the drum, as shown in the drawings.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

Ina steam-washer, the drum d, provided with a series of troughs, tr, whose sides flare inward from the periphery of the drum toward the concave bottom of such trough, such flaring sides and concave bottom forming pockets in the corners at their junction for carrying the water, the bottom of these troughs formed concave and having inlets 0 therein, inlets-1 and 2 being left between such flaring sides and theinner surface of the drum, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of June, 1885.

HENRY A. STUMPF. 

